Unit 12997

Category: Layer    dug in 2006

 

Area: North 

 

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Interpretive Categories: fill of burial 

 

Data Category Information: Location: cut; Description: pit; Deposition: homogeneous; Basal Spit: basal deposit

 

Discussion: Fill of small pit [12998] - function unclear, initally thought to be a burial.

Was the fill of final phase of brial activity within the platform F.2225. In this final phase three adults were interedin the muli-burial F.2232 

 

Recognition: Dark fill in cut [12998] 

Definition: good 

Execution: Trowel excavated - initially believed to be a burial 

Condition: dry windy 

Consistency: Firm 

Colour: Mid greyish brown 

Texture: Silty clay 

Bedding: massive 

Inclusions: occasional animal bone, and obsidian flakes 

Post-depositional Features: animal burrow 

Basal Boundary: onto very compact clay 

 

Unit Stratigraphy (as recorded in the field): above: (Click to view the record) 12996 below: (Click to view the record) 12995 

 

Dry sieve volume: 15 

Total Deposit Volume: 38 

Number of Samples recorded by excavator: 2

Number of Related Diary Entries: 0

 

Settlement Phase:

Associated Mellaart Levels (from Space): Unassigned at present 

Associated Hodder Level (from Space): Unassigned at present 

Related Photos: 1 (Opens as a group in a new window)

Buildings: (Click to view the record) 60

Spaces: (Click to view the record) 278

Features:: none

Finds Room Information:

All material from site passes through the finds room for washing and separating before it is passed onto the various lab teams. The finds room keeps a basic inventory of what is found. A finds material type list is given here. Further analytical detail maybe provided by the Lab Team data below.

X Finds Material: nothing recorded  

Finds Material Stored: nothing recorded  

 

Lab Team Data

Please note the list below does not represent everything that might have been found in this Unit, but represents the datasets we have available on-line. Please contact us to obtain more information about this Unit.

ArchaeoBots Sample Recorded: No

Ceramics Data for 2006 still to be released

Clay Object Records: No

Chipped Stone Records: No

Conservation Recorded: No

Faunal Records: Yes Count of records:: 17

Figurine Records: No

GroundStone Records: No

Heavy Residue Records: No

Microfaunal Records: No Sorry not all of this data is available online at present, please contact us if you are particularly interested microfauna records

Phytolith Sample: No Sorry not all of this data is available online at present, please contact us if you are particularly interested phytolith samples

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